Intel Partners With Microsoft to Combat Cryptojacking Attacks by Deploying a ...
Although recent studies have been showing a slowdown in cryptojacking activities, especially the ones related to mining privacy coins, Intel remains on the hunt to crackdown on such activities. The tech giant has partnered with Microsoft to deploy a campaign that strengthens cryptojacking detection with new technologies. Tool Could Trigger Multiple Detectors to Halt Any Cryptojacking Threat According to the announcement, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integrated a threat detection tool – known as Intel Threat Detection Technology (Intel TDT) – designed by Intel to launch an....
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Cryptojacking has become a lucrative choice for cybercriminals as many victims are unaware they have been compromised. New research shows that despite falling digital asset prices, cryptojacking has reached record levels in the first half of 2022.According to a mid-year update on cyber threats by American cybersecurity company SonicWall, global cryptojacking volumes rose by $66.7 million, or 30% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period last year.Cryptojacking is a cybercrime whereby malicious actors commandeer a victim’s computer resources by infecting the machine with malware....
Microsoft's Azure blockchain and its blockchain-as-a-service endeavor is now adding three new partners to its blockchain-toolkit platform, with one of them even providing a Bitcoin data service. Soon after launching its blockchain-based service for customers of its cloud platform Azure last month, Microsoft has been ramping up its partners who will serve as collaborators and service providers. Last week, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Ripple, the interledger protocol to its blockchain toolkit. In a new blog post by Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy for Financial....
Microsoft’s blockchain -as-a-service (Baas) endeavor now sees four new partners signing up for the service that will be made available for the software giant’s clients on Azure, its cloud platform. Microsoft has been on a heightened drive lately with signing up new partners for its BaaS offering. In its most recent update, the software giant has revealed new partners including prominent Bitcoin payment processor – BitPay. Marley Gray, director of technology strategy for US Financial Services revealed the latest additions to the ‘Azure Blockchain Ecosystem’ in a blog post. With the....
Tech giant Intel has unveiled a new experimental distributed ledger platform dubbed "Sawtooth Lake". Code for proposed contribution to the open-source Hyperledger blockchain project was posted to GitHub today, along with an in-depth informational release that outlines the major planks of the initiative and offers a tutorial for implementing the code. The code was presented at today's Hyperledger technical steering committee meeting. Intel described Sawtooth Lake as "a highly modular platform for building, deploying and running distributed ledgers". According to the....